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Life on the Dirtiest Block in San Francisco
NYT ^ | Oct 8, 2018 | Thomas Fuller

Posted on 10/08/2018 5:32:23 AM PDT by upchuck

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To: upchuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I0vkKy504U


21 posted on 10/08/2018 6:14:49 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: junta
Great idea, tell Nancy Pelosi to clean up her 'house' before complaining about anything else.

#NancyCleanYourHouse1st

22 posted on 10/08/2018 6:22:18 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: upchuck

What do they expect? They turned san fran freako into a welcoming haven for non-natural practices, promote drug use, turn it into a sanctuary city. What do they expect?


23 posted on 10/08/2018 6:29:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: upchuck

Seen enough,
Thanks.
California can Rot!


24 posted on 10/08/2018 6:31:00 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: upchuck
For many who live here it’s difficult to reconcile San Francisco’s liberal politics with the misery that surrounds them.

For many who live here it's difficult to grok the concept of cause and effect.

25 posted on 10/08/2018 6:39:29 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: upchuck
Just made a trip to the Northwest. Portland and Seattle are in much the same condition. You have to watch the sidewalks for human excrement and you are besieged by panhandlers. Of course there are the mentally ill vigorously arguing with the voices in their heads as well! The courts have guaranteed the civil right to be a feral human until such time as they commit a crime which the police bother to investigate... These cities (like San Francisco) used to be great places to visit..., no more!
26 posted on 10/08/2018 6:46:16 AM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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For many who live here it’s difficult to reconcile San Francisco’s liberal politics with the misery that surrounds them.

Cant believe the NYT said that.

27 posted on 10/08/2018 6:47:27 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: upchuck
"There are about 100 to 150 people who are clearly mentally ill and who are cycling through the system and who need to be forced into conservatorship,” [Mayor] Breed said in an interview. “We know all of them.”

Now that is something I never thought I would see...a liberal arguing for involuntary commitment. But what is "conservatorship"? I doubt it would be commitment to Bellevue which is exactly what we need to bring back.

28 posted on 10/08/2018 6:47:52 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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“Human waste has become such a widespread problem in San Francisco that the city in September established a unit dedicated to removing it from the sidewalks. Rachel Gordon, a spokeswoman for the Public Works Department, describes the new initiative as a “proactive human waste” unit.”


29 posted on 10/08/2018 6:49:00 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: goldstategop

The Tenderloin has always been the seediest part of the city, a part sane citizens know to avoid. I moved to SF in the summer of ‘73 and we knew even then it was a no-go area of winos, addicts, crazy people and filth. The human debris has always been contained in that district. It’s weird that the old upscale theater district abuts the Tenderloin. As the Tenderloin has spilled out, the Theater District has deteriorated. Lots of huge conferences at the Moscone Center hold overflow events and presentations at hotels next to the Tenderloin. It makes for a fun time going to those presentations.


30 posted on 10/08/2018 6:54:31 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: wally_bert
I’ll stick with reruns of The Streets Of San Francisco, Ironside, and McMillan & Wife reruns for any SF fix.

There was a comedy set in SF about a couple in a two-family home whose young adult daughters lived in the downstairs apartment...ok, I pasted that line into BING and got the name...Too Close For Comfort. Ted Knight was the dad, and the younger daughter was a real hottie!

31 posted on 10/08/2018 7:13:31 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed

Monroe!


32 posted on 10/08/2018 7:20:42 AM PDT by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: upchuck

They just hired six pooper scoopers making $180k a year.

They will soon wipe off that sh*t. No word whether they will be wiping the bum’s and druggies asses as well.

https://amp-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-poop-patrol-salary-2018-8?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#aoh=15390080386814&amp_ct=1539008110110&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s


33 posted on 10/08/2018 7:21:48 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: upchuck

“For many who live here it’s difficult to reconcile San Francisco’s liberal politics with the misery that surrounds them.”

Liberals have trouble with cause and effect especially when it comes to human nature.


34 posted on 10/08/2018 7:28:23 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: wally_bert

“I’ll stick with reruns of The Streets Of San Francisco, Ironside, and McMillan & Wife reruns for any SF fix.”

The movie The Presidio is pretty darn good.


35 posted on 10/08/2018 7:31:52 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: goldstategop

“I saw nothing like this when I visited San Francisco in the 1990s. Things have gone downhill there since then.”

I was in Sacramento in 1993...that was the last time I was in CA. California was still a nice, fun, optimistic, tfull-of-life place...near as I could tell. Apparently the intervening 25 years have not been kind.


36 posted on 10/08/2018 7:34:57 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: wally_bert

Monroe was a hoot!


37 posted on 10/08/2018 7:37:03 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Dirty Harry.


38 posted on 10/08/2018 7:40:26 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: goldstategop

Some people have suggested that the opioid sales that started in the late 1990s...started the trend. Heroin started up about fifteen years ago as a trend in general.


39 posted on 10/08/2018 7:42:20 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: HereInTheHeartland

For a way-back look at a civilized society and city, the movie “Vertigo” is a treat. Wonderful street scenes of the era, and of course, an amazing Hitchcock work of art. I am just old enough to have personally experienced that world, and my heart aches for it.


40 posted on 10/08/2018 7:54:35 AM PDT by drwoof
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